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Colour Personal Computing is the fulfilment of my (almost) life-long
dream of starting an Amstrad CPC fanzine. In 1994, at the age of eleven I
came very close, creating the first issue of a cross-platform PC &
CPC fanzine with a friend. We were even planning on heading into our
local WHSmith's to see if they could stock it on their shelves (we were
small boys with big ambition). However, it was not not to be. My friend
and I drifted apart before the fanzine could ever be printed, but the
idea and missed opportunity has sat with me ever since. Like many other
CPC users, I eventually got a PC and the time spent with my CPC became
less and less as the releases slowly dwindled, but I've always kept one
eye on my first love and have continued to follow the scene and dipped a
toe into emulation every now and then.

Recently, with the growing
popularity in 'retro' computers it feels like the CPC has gotten a
second wind. There have been more games released in the last few years
than in the previous ten, and some absolutely wonderful pieces of
hardware that drag the thirty-year old computer kicking and screaming
into the 2010's.

Feeling that I was almost certainly missing out, I
retrieved my beloved CPC from my father's attic and tentatively
switched it on, and it still worked! So this fanzine will in-part be the
story of my experiences in rediscovering the machine after such a long
time.

There are of course lots of websites dedicated to the
Amstrad CPC, but print publications are few and far between so hopefully
there's a small gap in the community where this will fit.